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Luigi Pira Barolo Vigna Marenca 2005

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2005 Vintage

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Luigi Pira Barolo Vigna Marenca (2005)

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Winery:
Luigi Pira
Varietal:
Nebbiolo
Region:
Italy > Piedmont
Type:
Red Wine
Drink Dates:
Drink Now - 2020
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User Tags:  fruit, herb, leather, mouthful, stemmy, camphor, jam, tasting, black fruit, black raspberry 


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Nebbiolo is a fickle grape famed as much for its pale appearance as for its tannic character and produces some of the most perfumed and richly flavored wines. Though generally only medium-bodied, the wines possess rose and anise scented aromatics and deep flavors of cherry, orange peel and subtle green herb tones.

Winemakers Notes

[94 pts Robert Parker] As it often is Pira's Barolo Marenca is a thrilling wine. This layered sumptuous Barolo possesses generous plump fruit sweet spices menthol and new leather flavors with an expansive rich personality. The oak is well-integrated and the wine offers superb balance with tannins that finish big but polished. The Marenca is aged exclusively in 500-liter barrels.

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Snooth User: Gregory Dal Piaz
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AWE blind tasting - nice jammy fruit, black fruits, black raspberry, a pretty fruit driven nose, with some nice stemmy herbal background tones, and touched of leather and camphor, a bit flaccid in the mouth, really doesn’t follow up the nice aromatics, the flavors gain some intensity but are low key if nice with authentic medicinal character juxtaposed against a smaller raspberry toned fruit, big tannins on the finish, 87-88


May 2009

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